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Hello there all you fellow brewers! I've got here my ready to go readiness of readying ready to brew up some nice Christmas ale. The recipe is based off of The Pols "Holiday spiced ale" recipe. I upped the 2-row malt to get a higher gravity as I want this ale to kick you in the ass. I also...

This is my 7th batch and my 4th AG batch and I've previously been using White Labs liquid yeast, but I decided I wanted to try out some dry yeast like I did on my first two batches, simply because they had a quick hearty fermentation. I'll probably rehydrate it just because better safe than...

It says on the package pitch directly into wort, does this mean I do not need to rehydrate... that cant be right?

The only thing I see against it having botulism, is that the wort was packaged in the presence of oxygen. Although I am not an expert on the subject and its entirely possible that it could be infected. Personally, I would not use it.

I would throw some water in there, hot of course in the amount you would use to strike 7 lbs of grain, i usually go 1.25qt/pound for infusion. then check it back in an hour and see how much heat was lost, which i doubt will be more than a degree or 2

No brew to be brewed today, just a very nice *FAT* feast with the family and some homebrews poured-a-plenty, got the ingredients for a christmas spiced ale on tuesday and plan on brewin that up on saturday and then lettin it bottle age until christmas day where ill probably go to a friends house...

I'm either listenin to jazz or classical but sometimes ill pop on some sports talk radio, or the tv... I like my brew day to be chill so usually jazz

Okay I swear to god! I will not say I am going to post pictures and not have technical issues! The pictures should be up later on tonight or tomorrow if anyones interested, as for me, the yeast has been pitched and its looking very good, on to drink some of my last batch.

First runnings were 1.100 SG LOL!! I thought the new grain bill might put me on the high end, not that much though! Second runnings of the sparge water went down to 1.020 but I had already collected about 7.5 gallons so I started up the boil.

Okay gentlemen and ladies... today is brew day. I am about to be heating up my mash water and I've got all the **** ready to go! Pictures will be taken throughout the process and posted a little later on today. Wish me luck!

Yeah no problem, I mean I just assumed after not being able to find them at a couple local stores and the fact they were like "english imperial"! I just assumed I had to find like a specialty store??? Obviously I'm going to be picking up a few more of these glasses due to the fact that I just...

Hmmm. Well... woke up today to check the starter and I only see a small amount of bubbles and activity on the surface of the starter... hopefully the yeast is doing well or will kick up later on... at least there is SOME activity so I know the yeast is viable.

man! ****! I order those 2 glasses for the price of a set of 12.... seriously had i known about the target glasses i would have bought them, i guess its my bad as a person whos REAL lazy when it comes to searching locally for a product... i just assume those with the knowledge can point me to...

Had my starter going at about 230 and I've seen a noticable increase in the amount of yeast at the bottom of the jug, still no top level active fermentation going on, although that should change within the next couple hours.

Thanks a lot, I'm ordering 2 right now. Speedy delivery or what?

Is that website reputable?

Hey, yeah I've been doing some searching online and I have yet to find a reputable "nonic" style pint glass for a reasonable price that isn't halfway around the world and have the shipping cost more than the glasses themselves. Does anyone know of a good website to find these style pint glasses.

It's a 5 gallon batch, I thought the same thing when I was buying the malt, but I had already crushed it so I might just use half... the high grain bill is basically to get my OG high, I'm looking for a real big beer this time for the holidays and I have been playing around with recipes for a...

Okay so sorry from my last brew entry that I didn't post any pictures, technical issues... mainly the fact that my buddies camera is a pile... stopped me from doing any uploading... I swear I wont have that problem again! :fro: Here's the recipe... Grain: 12 lbs American 2-row pale 1...